Common use of Seniority for Preferred Assignments Clause in Contracts

Seniority for Preferred Assignments. 1. This seniority determines relative standing among full-time regular and full-time flexible employees eligible to bid for preferred assignments. It is computed from entry into a regular work force position in a particular occupational group and level. It continues to accrue as long as service in the same occupational group, level, and installa- tion continues. See B5 and B6 below. 2. Employees who change, or have changed, from one designation to another and who during con- tinuous employment in the Motor Vehicle Service and in the same installation return to the former position designation and salary level regain the seniority they had in that position, without senior- ity credit for intervening employment in other position designations, except as provided for in paragraphs 4, 5 & 6 below. 3. Except as specifically provided for elsewhere in this Agreement, full-time regulars, upon entering the Motor Vehicle Craft from another craft or installation, begin a new period of seniority. 4. When two or more employees in the same instal- lation, salary level, and position designation have seniority for preferred assignments from the same date, the tie will be broken as follows:

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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement